“Previously, we found that we had to import workers to be able to carry out different tasks within the autonomous city of Melilla and, however, since we arrived at the Government, through the different meetings we had with the business sector and n of the different studies that have been done in the city, we have been able to respond and adapt the training offer to the real needs of Melilla”
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, who has appeared together with the Provincial Director of Employment, Jorge Vera, has stressed that “this Government has been able to address and is adapting the training offer to the real needs of the autonomous city of Melilla”, something that has been referred to as one of the pillars in the fight against local unemployment.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city has explained that the objective of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez has been and is “not to have to let our talent escape and that our young people have to undertake in another area” and, at the same time, “that we do not have to import any type of worker or, at least, the smallest possible number”. “If we train the people of the city and give them that opportunity, they can carry out their work with total professionalism,” he added.
Moh has recalled that since 2018 26 training cycles have been launched in Melilla, with more than 1,200 students enrolled, which facilitates their insertion into the local labor market.
“We are not only talking about Employment Plans, but also about a background job, a structural job that we have been doing for a while,” he said, especially when unemployment fell during the month of May by 236 people, but of that number only 84 people correspond to recruitments carried out by the Employment Plans.
In this sense, he has defended the need to “continue working in that line, responding to structural problems that require investment, commitment and a lot of work.”
2,302 people less
The Delegate has also positively assessed employment figures at the national level, with an historic record of 21.8 million members of Social Security and a drop in unemployment below 2.5 million people, the lowest since July 2008.
Moh has highlighted the importance of continuing to bet on stable and quality employment, recalling that in Melilla 41.5% of contracts are already indefinite, compared to 8% in the period prior to the labor reform, while celebrating the fall in unemployment among women and youth in the city, which goes from 904 to 775 unemployed, that is, 129 fewer young people who are unemployed in our city.
“When we came to the government, in June 2018, Melilla registered 10,328 unemployed. Today we have 2,302 fewer people on the unemployment list”, he said and recalled that, during the PP government, it was valued that they had managed to get the unemployed off the 10,000 barrier.
“Today we are very close to lowering the barrier of the 8,000 unemployed and we will continue to work so that in the next month we can make it happen,” he said.
“We must continue to advocate for stable employment, for quality employment and we must continue to inject money, here, in the autonomous city of Melilla to continue to descend and reduce these unemployment lists,” he argued.
“We will continue to work to further reduce unemployment and provide real opportunities for our young people and all unemployed people,” he concluded.